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Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer • Southern Power

John Trawick is senior vice president and

chief operating officer for Southern Power,

a subsidiary of Southern Company.

Southern Power is America’s premier

wholesale energy partner, meeting the

electricity needs of municipalities, electric

cooperatives, investor-owned utilities and

other energy customers with one of the

fastest growing clean energy portfolios in

the U.S. Trawick is responsible for the

operations of Southern Power’s expanding electric

generation fleet, transmission, and commercial optimization

and trading. He was named to this position in 2016.

Prior to his current position, Trawick served as senior vice

president of commercial operations and planning for

Southern Company, where he was responsible for Southern

Wholesale Energy, fleet operations and energy trading,

financial and contract services, operations budget and

reporting, system planning and fuels.

Before returning to Southern Company in 2013, Trawick was

the senior vice president of power supply and fuels for the

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Knoxville, Tennessee.

In this role, Trawick was responsible for power trading,

power origination, coal and gas services, system planning,

structuring and portfolio management and fleet coordination.

Trawick joined TVA in 2008 and held roles with

responsibilities in power rates and pricing, corporate

strategy, system planning and fuels.

Trawick led an effort to restructure the TVA

wholesale rate design for the first time in

20 years with TVA’s 155 electric

cooperative and municipal customers.

In his prior employment at Southern

Company, Trawick was director of

strategic and corporate affairs at Southern

Power. Trawick has also worked at

Southern Energy Inc., or Mirant, and as a

senior consultant with J. Kennedy and Associates, analyzing

financial and economic analyses in utility, cost-of-service,

rate design and production modeling.

Trawick is a native of Montgomery, Alabama. He graduated

from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in applied

mathematics and earned a master’s degree in mathematics

at the University of Tennessee. He serves on the Leadership

Council of the College of Science and Mathematics at

Auburn University. He has served in various community

roles including the chair of the United Way for the Smoky

Mountain Region Combined Federal Campaign in 2009 and

2010, chair of the March of Dimes Greater Birmingham

campaign, and as a board member of Glenwood Autism and

Behavioral Health Center and the Autism Society of

Alabama.

Trawick and his wife, Tammi, have two sons and live in

Birmingham.